ncp(7D)

Name

ncp– UltraSPARC T1 server crypto provider device driver

Description

The ncp device driver is a multi-threaded, loadable hardware driver supporting hardware assisted acceleration of RSA and DSA cryptographic operations. This support is built into the UltraSPARC T1 processor.

The ncp driver requires the presence of the Solaris Cryptographic Framework to enable applications and kernel clients to access the provided services.

CONFIGURATION

You configure the ncp driver by defining properties in /platform/sun4v/kernel/drv/ncp.conf which override the default settings. The following property is supported:

nostats

Disables the generation of statistics. The nostats property may be used to help prevent traffic analysis, but this may inhibit support personnel.